Oh my gosh, I don't have anything to bitch about. All I have is good news right now. Well... I could bitch about the fact that the VA totally swiped our federal return that we were desperately waiting for, but it went to pay down a bill so it's not like we blew it at the casino or shot it up our arms.
But really, things are great. It took me a couple months, but I'm finally excited about my job. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, but as it turns out, the other shoe was just as nice. The company I work for is a recent spin-off and I won't bore you with the details, but everyone in the building (and probably all the other buildings) is really energetic so it's contagious. Even my uber-cynic Hubby is pumped! That in itself is amazing. Plus I've shed a total of 18 pounds as of this morning--yay me! How many husbands can say that as soon as they got married their wives grew their hair all the way down their back and started losing weight??? I remind him of how lucky he is continually.
At home, we're bitching a lot less and spend more time thinking about the future, what to save for, and how to do it. I feel like we're a team more so than ever. I'm amazed that we got through all the shit-caked garbage life threw at us for the last few years, so now that things are going even a little bit right for us I feel like the sun finally came out. It makes me want to cry. And it's not like we got jobs as apprentice millionaires--in fact, we're not even thousandaires because our bank accounts are empty at the moment--but finally the phone isn't ringing off the hook from bill collectors, our rent gets paid every month, we have an auto to get around in, and life has REAL POTENTIAL.
Like I've said before, money changes everything. Even just a little bit of it.
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Riot!!!! I'm soooo happy for you.
Isn't it amazing that life doesn't ALWAYS have to suck???
Hey, I'm at least a "hundredaire" right now..it's better than what I used to be: Unemployed. with no more assistance checks coming in.
Now THAT was a shitty period of my life....
Yeah, it used to be BAD. I got fired from Whole Foods right before Pat and I signed a lease on our first apartment together. It got to the point we had to get groceries from Hubby's parents' pantry and freezer. Blech, it was not healthy food but we're still alive. We nearly got evicted because we were behind on the rent. The phone got shut off, and the power company threatened to about 8 dozen times. No Christmas presents, no birthdays, no nice clothes, no new shoes, no nights out. When we weren't screaming or throwing things at each other we played a lot of scrabble.
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